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BUCKINGHAM:
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Is it even so? rewards he my true service
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With such deep contempt made I him king for this?
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O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
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To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!
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TYRREL:
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The tyrannous and bloody deed is done.
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The most arch of piteous massacre
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That ever yet this land was guilty of.
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Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn
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To do this ruthless piece of butchery,
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Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,
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Melting with tenderness and kind compassion
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Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.
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'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'
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'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another
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Within their innocent alabaster arms:
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Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
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Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.
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A book of prayers on their pillow lay;
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Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;
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But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd
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Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered
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The most replenished sweet work of nature,
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That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'
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Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;
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They could not speak; and so I left them both,
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To bring this tidings to the bloody king.
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And here he comes.
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All hail, my sovereign liege!
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KING RICHARD III:
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Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?
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TYRREL:
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If to have done the thing you gave in charge
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Beget your happiness, be happy then,
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For it is done, my lord.
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KING RICHARD III:
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But didst thou see them dead?
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TYRREL:
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I did, my lord.
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KING RICHARD III:
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And buried, gentle Tyrrel?
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TYRREL:
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The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;
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But how or in what place I do not know.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
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And thou shalt tell the process of their death.
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Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
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And be inheritor of thy desire.
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Farewell till soon.
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The son of Clarence have I pent up close;
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His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;
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The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
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And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
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Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
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At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
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And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,
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To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.
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CATESBY:
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My lord!
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KING RICHARD III:
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Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?
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CATESBY:
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Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;
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And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,
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Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.
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KING RICHARD III:
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Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
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Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.
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Come, I have heard that fearful commenting
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Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary
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Then fiery expedition be my wing,
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Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!
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Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;
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We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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So, now prosperity begins to mellow
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And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
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Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,
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To watch the waning of mine adversaries.
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A dire induction am I witness to,
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And will to France, hoping the consequence
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Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
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Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?
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